Blum Arlen Viktorovich

about George Orwell

‘Nevertheless, even in the height of stagnation, due to “minor failures of the big machine”, the name of Orwell cropped up from time to time without humiliating epithets. In 1972, I managed to publish an article about the censorship of a number of English and American anti-Utopian works at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in the Sverdlovsk magazine Uralsky sledopyt. Among them were the novel by Edward Bellamy Looking Backward...’